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ASHLEY MEARS Boston University, Department of Sociology, 100 Cummington Mall, Office 265, Boston, MA 02215 Email: ​Mears@B ASHLEY MEARS Boston University, Department of Sociology, 100 Cummington Mall, Office 265, Boston, MA 02215 Email: ​[email protected] EMPLOYMENT 2015 – Present Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston University 2009 – 2015 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University 2016 – Present Faculty Appointment in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Boston University 2016 (Fall) Visiting Professor, Central European University Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology and Department of Gender Studies EDUCATION PhD New York University, Sociology, 2009 Dissertation: “Pricing Beauty: The Production of Value in Fashion Modeling Markets” Committee: Judith Stacey (chair), Craig Calhoun, Harvey Molotch MA New York University, Sociology, 2006 Comprehensive Exams: Sex and Gender; Race and Ethnicity BA University of Georgia, Sociology, 2002 summa cum laude ​; minor in Dramatic Arts PUBLICATIONS Books Very Important People: Beauty and Status in the Global Party Circuit. 2020 ​ Princeton University Press. * Translated in Chinese by East China Normal University Press, forthcoming 2020 * Translated in Japanese by Misuzu Shobo, forthcoming 2020 * Features: The Economist, ArtReview, Choice, Forbes, Financial Times, The ​ Spectator, Slate, Daily Beast, The New York Post, The Telegraph, The Times UK Literary Supplement, The Times (UK), Psychology Today, The BBC’s Thinking Allowed ​ ​ Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model 2011 ​. University of California Press. Chinese by East China Normal University Press, 2018 * Translated in ​ * Translated ​in Korean by Cheomnetworks, 2016 American Journal of Sociology Contemporary * Reviewed in scholarly press: ​ ​, ​ Sociology, Gender & Society, Sociological Forum * Features: The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Republic, Slate, New York Times’ Sunday Magazine, The Sunday Times of London ​ 2 Invited Edited Volume Socio-Economic Review 2018 ​ ​Special Issue, “Elites, Economy, and Society.” Co-edited by Bruno Cousin, Shamus Khan, and Ashley Mears. Volume 16, Issue 2. Peer-Reviewed Articles 2019 “Des Fêtes très Exclusives. Les Promoteurs de Soirées VIP, des Intermédiaires aux Ambitions Contraries.” (“An Exclusive Night Scene: Promoters of VIP Evenings, Intermediaries with Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales Thwarted Ambitions.”)​ ​ 230(5):56-75. Khan, and Ashley Mears. “Theoretical and methodological pathways 2018 Bruno Cousin, Shamus​ ​ ​ for research on elites.” Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 225-249. ​ ​ 2017 Asaf Darr and ​Ashley Mears​. “Local Knowledge, Global Networks: Scouting for Fashion Poetics Models and Football Players.” ​ ​ 62: 1-14. * Lead Article 2016 Ashley Mears​ and Catherine Connell. “The Paradoxical Value of Deviant Cases: Toward a Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Gendered Theory of Display Work.” ​ ​ 41(2): 333-359. 2015 “Working for Free in the VIP: Relational Work and the Production of Consent.” American ​ Sociological Review 80(6): 1099-1122. ​ * Lead article ​ * Honorable Mention, W. Richard Scott Article Award for Distinguished Scholarship ​ of the ASA Section on Organizations Occupations Work, 2016 2015 “Girls as Elite Distinction: The Appropriation of Bodily Capital.” Special Issue on New Poetics Forms of Distinction, ​ ​53: 22–37. * Winner, Best Publication Award of the ASA Section on Body & Embodiment, 2017 Sociology Compass 2014 “Aesthetic Labor for the Sociologies of Work, Gender, and Beauty.” ​ 8(12): 1330–1343. 2014 “Seeing Culture through the Eye of the Beholder: Four Methods in Pursuit of Taste.” Special Theory and Society Issue on Measuring Culture, ​ ​43(3-4): 291-309. The Sociological Quarterly 2013 “Ethnography as Precarious Work.” ​ ​ 54(1): 20-34. 2012 Noah McClain and ​Ashley Mears​. “Free to Those Who Can Afford It: The Everyday Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research in Culture, the Media, and Affordance of Privilege.” ​ the Arts ​40(2): 133-149. International Perspectives of Marketing Theory * Reprinted in ​ ​, eds. Mark Tadajewski and Robert Cluley. London: Sage (2014). 3 2012 Joanne Entwistle and ​Ashley Mears​. “Gender on Display: Performance and Performativity in Cultural Sociology Fashion Modelling.” ​ ​ 6(4): 1-16. 2010 “Size Zero High-End Ethnic: Cultural Production and the Reproduction of Culture in Fashion Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research in Culture, the Media, and the Arts Modeling.” ​ ​38(1): 21-46. 2009 Frédéric C. Godart and ​Ashley Mears​. “How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative Decisions? Social Forces Lessons from the Catwalk.” ​ ​ 88(2): 671-692. * Translated in French, “Prise de décision créative en situation d’incertitude : le cas de la Sociologie et Sociétés sélection des mannequins par les maisons de mode.” ​ ​ 43(1): 175-199. 2008 “Discipline of the Catwalk: Gender, Power and Uncertainty in Fashion Modeling.” Ethnography ​9(4): 429-456. * Lead article 2005 ​Ashley Mears​ and William Finlay. “Not Just a Paper Doll: How Models Manage Bodily Journal of Contemporary Ethnography Capital and Why They Perform Emotional Labor.” ​ 34(3): 317-343. Sociological Odyssey: Contemporary Readings in Introductory Sociology * Reprinted in ​ ​, eds. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler. Third Edition, Wadsworth Cencage (2009). In Progress Ashley Mears, Michel Anteby, and Patricia Ward. “Learning to Labor like a Hard-working ​ Immigrant.” Under review. ​ Ashley Mears and Heather Mooney. “College Partying as a Social Field: An Ethnography of ​ ​ Symbolic Domination.” Under review. ​ ​ Book Chapters and Commentary 2019 “Fashion and Its Gendered Agendas.” Oxford Handbook of Consumption. Editors Frederick ​ ​ Wherry and Ian Woodward. Oxford Handbook on Pierre 2018 Cati Connell and ​Ashley Mears​. “Bourdieu and the Body,” ​ ​ ​ Bourdieu. Editors, Tom Medvetz, Jeff Sallaz. ​ “Puzzling in Sociology: On Doing and Undoing Theoretical Puzzles.” Sociological Theory 35: 2017 ​ 138-146. 2017 “The Work of Fashion Modeling in a Global Field” in Doing Sociology through Fashion. ​ ​ ​ ​ Yuhikaku Publishing, Japan. 4 2017 Alexander Edmonds and ​Ashley Mears​. “Managing body capital in fields of labor, sex, and Fat Planet health” in ​ ​, E. Anderson-Fye and A. Brewis Slade (eds.) Santa Fe: SAR Press. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and 2014 “Beauty, Race, and Power,” in ​ Nationalism ​, eds. John Stone et al. Wiley-Blackwell. The Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia 2013 ​ ​“The Cool Industries,” in ​ ​, ed. Vicki Smith. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. Fashioning Models: Modeling as Image, Text 2013 “Made in Japan: Fashion Modeling in Tokyo,” in ​ and Industry ​, eds. Joanne Entwistle and Elizabeth Wissinger. Oxford: Berg. The Worth of Goods: 2011 “Pricing Looks: Circuits of Value in Fashion Modeling Markets,” in ​ Valuation and Pricing in the Economy ​, eds. Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers. Oxford University Press. Book Reviews Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West, 2021 Review of ​ ​ by Justin Farrell. American Journal of Sociology. In production. ​ ​ Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent, by Brooke 2018 Review of ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Harrington. Contemporary Sociology 47(1):74-76. ​ ​ Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery 2016 Review Essay, “Ethnography Goes Out on the Town,” of ​ Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City ​ by Richard E. Ocejo and Urban Nightlife: Sociological Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space by Reuben A. Buford May. ​ Forum ​ 31(1): 253-257. Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon 2013 Review of ​ ​, by Danielle J. American Journal of Sociology Lindemann, 2012. ​ ​ 119(2): 577-79. Women at Work: Tupperware, Passion Parties, and Beyond, 2012 Review of ​ ​ by L. Susan Williams Gender & Society and Michelle Bemiller, 2011. ​ ​26(6): 952- 54. Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People are More Successful 2012 Review of ​ ​, by Daniel S. Hamermesh, Contemporary Sociology 2011. ​ ​ 41(6): 814-15. Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil 2012 Review of ​ by Alexander Edmonds, E-misferica 2010. ​ ​ 8.2, January. The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. Contemporary Sociology 2010 “A Reply to Earl Smith and Bonnie Berry.” ​ ​ 39(2): 230-32. The Power of Looks: Social Stratification of Physical Appearance 2009 Review of ​ by Bonnie Berry. Contemporary Sociology ​ 38(4): 360-61. 5 Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics European 2007 Review of ​ by Roberta Sassatelli. ​ Journal of Sociology ​ 48(3): 490-92. Public Writings 2020 “The Secret Economics of a VIP Party.” The Economist / 1843 Magazine, June 25. ​ ​ 2016 “Conversations: Ashley Mears Talks about the Ethnography of Desire” with Steve Vallas. Work in Progress Blog of the OOW Section of the ASA, May 30. ​ The New York Times 2014 “Who Runs the Girls?” Op-Ed for ​ ​, Sunday Review. September 21. The New York Times 2012 “Age Limits Underscore Obsession with Youth.” Op-Ed for ​ ​, Room for Debate Online, September 14. Work in Progress, 2011 “Will Work for Cool.” Guest Blog for ​ ​Blog of the American Sociological Association’s Organizations, Occupations and Work Section, December 13. The New York Times 2011 “Poor Models. Seriously.” Op-Ed for ​ ​, September 15. Three Quarks Daily 2010 “How Supermodels Are Like Toxic Assets.” Guest Blog for ​ ​ appearing July 12. The Week Magazine *Reprinted in ​ ​, August 2, 2010. AWARDS AND HONORS 2017 University of Georgia Distinguished Alumni Prize, Department of Sociology 2017 Best Publication Award of the American Sociological Association Body & Embodiment Section 2016 Honorable Mention, W.
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